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Schumer's and Biden's 30-Year Relationship


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Schumer and Biden: how an 30-year relationship shaped their work together in 2020

Emilie Munson

Oct. 19, 2020

Updated: Oct. 19, 2020 6 a.m.

 

WASHINGTON — In 1993, then U.S. Rep. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., was two years deep in a fight to regulate handgun purchases and facing stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association.

 

He turned for help to a giant of the U.S. Senate and the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Joe Biden.

 

Schumer asked Biden to help him push reluctant House members toward yes votes on what would become the landmark Brady Bill.

 

"He would persuade them that they could vote for this bill and it was the right thing to do and how to handle it and how to talk to some of the people in their districts who might not have been friendly to that," remembered Schumer, now the Senate minority leader, during a recent interview. "He was very good at that.”

 

Through their efforts, the Brady Bill - which imposed a waiting period on the purchase of handguns and established the federal framework for firearms background checks - was approved by the House and Senate in November 1993 and signed into law.

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"That’s how we really got to know each other, bonded over those kinds of bills,” Schumer said, referring to the Brady Bill, as well as the 1994 assault weapons ban.

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